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دفتر اول - بخش ۵۹ - قصهٔ مکر خرگوش / Book One - Section 59 - The Tale of the Hare's Deceit

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ساعتی تأخیر کرد اندر شدن
بعد از آن شد پیش شیر پنجه زن

زان سبب کاندر شدن او ماند دیر
خاک را می کند و می غرید شیر

گفت من گفتم که عهد آن خسان
خام باشد خام و سست و نارسان

دمدمه ی ایشان مرا از خر فکند
چند بفریبد مرا این دهر چند

سخت درماند امیر سست ریش
چون نه پس بیند نه پیش از احمقیش

راه هموارست زیرش دامها
قحط معنی در میان نامها

لفظها و نامها چون دامهاست
لفظ شیرین ریگ آب عمر ماست

آن یکی ریگی که جوشد آب ازو
سخت کم یابست رو آن را بجو

منبع حکمت شود حکمت طلب
فارغ آید او ز تحصیل و سبب

لوح حافظ لوح محفوظی شود
عقل او از روح محظوظی شود

چون معلم بود عقلش ز ابتدا
بعد ازین شد عقل شاگردی ورا

عقل چون جبریل گوید احمدا
گر یکی گامی نهم سوزد مرا

تو مرا بگذار زین پس پیش ران
حد من این بود ای سلطان جان

هر که ماند از کاهلی بی شکر و صبر
او همی داند که گیرد پای جبر

هر که جبر آورد خود رنجور کرد
تا همان رنجوریش در گور کرد

گفت پیغمبر که رنجوری بلاغ
رنج آرد تا بمیرد چون چراغ

جبر چه بود؟ بستن اشکسته را
یا بپیوستن رگی بگسسته را

چون درین ره پای خود نشکسته ای
بر که می خندی چه پا را بسته ای

وانک پایش در ره کوشش شکست
دررسید او را براق و بر نشست

حامل دین بود او محمول شد
قابل فرمان بد او مقبول شد

تاکنون فرمان پذیرفتی ز شاه
بعد ازین فرمان رساند بر سپاه

تاکنون اختر اثر کردی درو
بعد ازین باشد امیر اختر او

گر ترا اشکال آید در نظر
پس تو شک داری در انشق القمر

تازه کن ایمان نی از گفت زبان
ای هوا را تازه کرده در نهان

تا هوا تازه ست ایمان تازه نیست
کاین هوا جز قفل آن دروازه نیست

کرده ای تأویل حرف بکر را
خویش را تاویل کن نه ذکر را

بر هوا تأویل قرآن می کنی
پست و کژ شد از تو معنی سنی

English translation

He delayed for a while before going; then he came before the claw-striking lion. Because he had been late in coming, the lion was tearing up the earth and roaring. He said: I said that the covenant of those base ones would be raw, raw, weak, and unfulfilled. Their cajolery unseated me; how long will this world deceive me, how long? The weak-rooted ruler is sorely confounded when, from his foolishness, he sees neither behind nor ahead. The road is smooth, but beneath it are traps; there is a famine of meaning among names. Words and names are like traps; sweet wording is sand that drains the water of our life. That one sand from which water wells up is exceedingly rare; go, seek it. The seeker of wisdom becomes a source of wisdom; he comes free of acquisition and secondary causes. His tablet of memory becomes a Preserved Tablet; his intellect receives a share from the Spirit. Since his intellect was the teacher at first, after this intellect becomes his pupil. Intellect, like Gabriel, says: O Ahmad, if I take one step farther, I will burn. Leave me behind; from here on go forward. This was my limit, O sultan of the soul. Whoever stays behind through laziness, without gratitude and patience, knows only how to seize the pretext of compulsion. Whoever invokes compulsion has made himself sick, until that very sickness puts him in the grave. The Prophet said that sickness is a warning: it brings suffering until one dies like a lamp. What is jabr? Setting what is broken, or rejoining a severed vein. Since your foot has not broken on this path, whom are you laughing at? Why have you bound up your foot? But the one whose foot broke on the path of striving: Buraq came to him, and he mounted. He had been a bearer of religion; he became borne. He had been receptive to command; he became accepted. Until now he received command from the King; after this he delivers command to the army. Until now the star exerted influence on him; after this he will be commander of the star. If this seems difficult to your sight, then you doubt the splitting of the moon. Renew your faith, not by speech of the tongue, O you who have secretly renewed desire. As long as desire is fresh, faith is not fresh, for this desire is nothing but the lock on that gate. You have interpreted the virgin word; interpret yourself, not the Reminder. You interpret the Qur'an according to desire; through you the exalted meaning has become low and crooked.

Updated 2026-06-28

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